bazoo

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn.

   • It goes against the grain to toot one’s own “bazoo”
   • Born Charles Westover in Coopersville, Michigan, on 30 December 1939, he learned to play the bazoo, ukulele and, eventually, the guitar.
   • The bully girl with a crystal optic and tin horn was at the jollification. She “tooted her bazoo” in concert with Hon. Nelson’s horn, and wanted “White husbands or none.”
2. 2

   A person's mouth.

   • If any galoot in the mob knows of anything that mout block the game ef tuk to a higher court, let him now toot his bazoo, or else keep his jaw to himself now and forever more.
   • "As for the screechin', one bazoo's as good as a dozen, if so be ye blow it fierce enough."

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